Canvassing the Internet: Platonic Admiration

[tealin]

I know I was behind the door when hormones were handed out, but surely I am not the only one who finds it possible to respect and admire someone – or even just like a fictional character – without being sexually attracted to them. In high school the response to a statement of such admiration was usually full of conspiratorial innuendo, accompanied by a virtual 'wink wink nudge nudge.' I thought that when I joined the grownup world that mindset had been left behind, but I've encountered it a few times recently and it's got me wondering. Anyone out there know what I'm talking about? Opinions? Insights? Observations? Advice, even?

Comments

[beckychan.livejournal.com]

Opinion: People are dumbasses. Innuendo fails to go away when you grow up. As animals, our bodies are wired to want sex. As humans, we're supposed to be able to think beyond instinct.
There are SEVERAL fictional characters I like with asolutely no sexual connotation behind them. Take the entire cast of Avatar, for example. Or Sam Vimes. You don't need physical attraction to get mental attraction. That's what makes friends. An attraction to a fictional character can be just as strongly, "I'd LOVE to be friends with that person!" as anything else.
But you're never gonna escape the innuendo because of that whole being animals thing. And because people are dumbasses.

Myself included.

[ardys-the-ghoul.livejournal.com]

Not everybody's body is wired to want sex. Mine, for instance.

[beckychan.livejournal.com]

Oh,no! I was not trying to imply that it's a 100% universal thing! But, in you take the whole of the human race, I'd say the vast majority is.

[ardys-the-ghoul.livejournal.com]

According to scientists, about 1% of the human population is not. So, yes, the majority is. (But one percent is still quite a few--more than they expected, actually.)